Bible Quote Jun 21st Mark 8:36

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”Mark 8:36 NIV
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The Gospel According to Mark (Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Μᾶρκον, translit. Euangélion katà Mârkon) is one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death and burial and the discovery of the empty tomb – there is no genealogy of Jesus or birth narrative, nor, in the original ending at chapter 16, any post-resurrection appearances of Jesus. It portrays Jesus as a heroic man of action, an exorcist, a healer, and a miracle worker. Jesus is also the Son of God, but he keeps his identity secret (the Messianic Secret), concealing it in parables so that even most of the disciplesfail to understand. All this is in keeping with prophecy, which foretold the fate of the messiah as suffering servant. The gospel ends, in its original version, with the discovery of the empty tomb, a promise to meet again in Galilee, and an unheeded instruction to spread the good news of the resurrection.

Here, Jesus addresses what he later rebukes his followers with. The disciples loved Jesus and wanted to be one Jesus would turn to. They argued among themselves as to who among them was his favourite. Jesus’ answer is humbling. And not something that is immediately obvious.

People work to achieve. We raise our children to be doctors or lawyers because one can be successful in those professions and still have a reasonable home life. We seek affluence to own things. We want compassion, but don’t look for it.

People are happy in service. It is nice to own things, but nicer to work for them. To achieve them. Yet even the slave of George Washington was happy to make him a cake on his birthday. Mothers find happiness to meet the needs of their young children.

Great Presidents of the United States did not order and divide the people, but united them in service.

And so it was with Jesus. For Jesus, to redeem God’s chosen people, and the Gentiles, He did not come to command, but to serve.
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